Ever since I moved to Findlay almost a year ago, the highlight of my week has always been Game Night. While Dan and I celebrated Valentine’s Day this year by playing board games with our friends, Saturday Game Days are unusual. Usually our friend Chris hosts a potluck dinner on a weeknight, and we all take turns providing the main dish.
For Dan’s last Game Night, I volunteered to cook dinner. I’ve been trying to use our Crock-Pot more often, which is perfect for group dinners. Beef stew is one of my favorite winter dishes, and I finally made it myself!
This beef stew recipe is how I made it the first time, which feeds 6-8. I tweaked it for Game Night to serve 10-12, but it wasn’t quite as good.
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Easy Slow Cooker Beef Stew Recipe
Ingredients:
2 pounds beef stew meat, cut into 1-inch cubes
1 package baby carrots
5-6 Yukon Gold potatoes, cut into chunks
1 clove garlic, minced
1 packet beef stew seasoning
Salt, pepper, paprika, and Worcestershire sauce to taste
1 can beef broth
Instructions:
- Place the beef, carrots, and potatoes in the Crock-Pot. Add all the seasonings, plus the beef broth. If you like more broth in your stew, add in the water amount recommended on the beef stew seasoning packet. I added a cup of water.
- Cover the Crock-Pot and cook on low for 10 hours. If your beef is frozen, like mine was, cook on high for 4 hours and then on low for 6 hours.
Adapted from this beef stew recipe.
Dinner was so good that I forgot to take pictures of the food itself. I managed to Instagram it in the morning, and Dan took some pictures of the mostly-empty Crock-Pots. When I increased the beef stew recipe to feed more, I had to use two Crock-Pots.
Tonight is my last Game Night. While I’ll technically still be in town next Thursday night, I plan either to pack or to go to bed early in anticipation of our big move that weekend!
I am so grateful to Chris and to everyone else for welcoming me at Game Night almost a year ago, when I first moved to Findlay. There is much I will miss about Ohio, but the amazing people here are truly the best part of the state.
Wow! You guys have so many games! How fun!!!! You’d get along great with my brother and sister in law because they’re game lovers too! 🙂
Those all belong to Chris! He even goes to gaming conventions. His collection is so vast that some of them are still unopened. Your brother and SIL sound like good people. 😉
Your stew looks delicious! We love to play games too. 🙂 Please come share your blog posts over at the Home Matters Linky Party! We’d love to have you for a visit. The Door OPENS FRIDAY. http://lifewithlorelai.com/2015/02/19/home-matters-linky-party-25/ 🙂
~Lorelai
Life With Lorelai
It was delicious! It’s so hot and cozy during this cold winter.
I’m always on the lookout for new slow cooker recipes. Can’t wait to try your beef stew recipe out. Thanks for sharing at the This Is How We Roll Link Party on Organized 31.
It’s ridiculously easy! Took me almost no time at all!
Yumm!!! I love beef stew and that definitely looks like a hit! Your game nights sound like a blast! I want in on them!!! 🙂
I’m really bummed to be leaving Game Night behind. I hope once Dan and I are established in Georgia, we can find or start a new Game Night.
That would be awesome!!! I bet it won’t take long to find a group there and get one going! 🙂
~ Victoria
http://www.myjourneyforhim.blogspot.com
MMmmm, this sounds so good! I have yet to make a stew, so I will have to use this recipe! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing at the #HomeMattersParty – we hope to see you again next week. 🙂
~Lorelai
Life With Lorelai
Sounds and looks scrumptious! We love good beef stew at our house and the slow cooker is the best way to cook it!
We are so glad you shared with us at the Merry Monday party!
We can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to at our next party!
I am always looking for good beef stew recipes. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for coming to the Inspire Me Monday Linky party and linking up with us this week.
I’m Janice, one of your hostesses.
Beef stew is so yummy! Those are a LOT of games you have! Which one is your favorite? My husband and I have a lot of games, but they are mostly the ones from our childhood. Family game night is so much fun!
I found your post at Inspire Me Mondays!
That’s quite a game collection! I feel like me and the boy have a pretty good collection ourselves, but that just makes ours look almost nonexistent in comparison!